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Enthusiasm Craters for Obama Amongst Young Voters

Jeff1162 Wrote: Apr 20, 2012 10:05 AM

Easy Carol! Didn't mean to get your blood pressure up. My first point was that people vote their personal pocketbooks. Would you vote for a candidate that promised to eliminate all federal taxes? Then you're voting for your personal economics. To answer your question, I was in the military during Vietnam, then worked for the military as a civilian, then worked for a company that did government work, and now own a company that absolutely refuses to take government contracts or to sell our products to the state or federal government.

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Enthusiasm Craters for Obama Amongst Young Voters

A new poll out shows that the youth vote that helped propel President Obama to the White House in 2008 won't be there for the Democrat to bank on this fall.

Young voters have historically preferred Democrats, but Obama's share of the youth vote in 2008 was historically large. The poll, conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in conjunction with the Berkley Center at Georgetown University, finds that 48 percent of young voters prefer the President. In 2008, though, Obama won 66 percent of that youth vote - a massive drop in support for the President.

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